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From: rsingh1@dahlia.waterloo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SURVEY - Documentation: Binders Or No Binders
Summary: Binders are Better
Keywords: To Binder or not, that is the question
Message-ID: <19056@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 89 21:28:29 GMT
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>I think most people would agree that binders are preferable all things
>being equal, but they aren't.  Binders are much more expensive to print
>than perfect bound.  A more useful question is:  How much more would you
>pay to get a binder instead of a perfect bound book?

Here's an idea i've been bouncing around in my mind.
 
If you buy a package that comes in a binder (no additional box), then
that's all you have to pay for.
 
With that other lay-flat binding (spiral bound?) you 'should' have a box,
and for a nice look, a colour cover page in heavier stock.
 
I worked this out to cost a bit more (for me anyway), than a binder.
 
The binders I'm looking at for a product I'm working on worked out to be
less because:  They are the program's box.
 
The binders I'm looking at will have a colour insert in the front (behind
a clear plastic sheet).  The inside cover will contain some registration
sheets.  The disks (2) will be kept in a plastic page (binder disk storage
thing).  These will be sealed with heavy tape or something, and the package
will have a paper seal (of the type you can not re-seal), so you'd know if
it had been opened.  The whole thing will be shrink-wrapped.
 
All this is cheaper than having a box, and a spiral bound manual
(our manual is around 150 pages).  I would never produce a manual that
didn't lay flat.  It just seems dumb.


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